The Forrest City times., 1887-10-22

tween sublap.afianism and suprsiapsariaulsm, while they have a thousand TPers of reniQrs se and despair colllng around aud biting tneh ''1' TryIp. TOR THE CHURCH.
 The church Is not chiefly for goodish men whose proclivities are all right snd Nho could get to heaven praying and slnging in their own homes It is on the beach 10 help the drowning. Those bad eases are lhe cases that God likes to take hold or. lie can save a big sinner as well as small sinner, ana when man calls earnestly to God for heip He will go out to deliver such one. II II were necessary God would come down from the sky. followed by all the artillery or heaSen and s million angels with drawn swords Get one hundred such redeemed men in each ot vour churches. and nothing SOud stand be- fore them, for such men are generally warm hearted and enthusiastic. No formal prayers then. No hesrtes. singing then. NO cold conveutionalisms then. ....-
 Furthermore, the destitute children d ths street offer \ field of work comparatively UT occupied. The uncared for children are ih the majority in Brooklyn and most Of our cities. When they grow ID, if unreiormea;; they will outvute yotir children, and they will govern your children. The whisky ring will hatch out other whisky rings and grog shops will kill with their hOrrid stench public sohrietv. unless the church of God rises up with outstretched arms and enfolds this dying population lh he, bosom. Public schools can not do it. Blackwelrs island cannot do it Art galleries cannot do 1t. Almshousss can not do 1t. New York Tombs and Raymond street fail cannot do 1t Sing Sing cannot do cent mission You can do it. Get somewhere, somehow to work.
 PUSHING TIE GOOD woRK.
 The Prussian cavalry mount by putting their right foot into the stirrup while the Auetiean cavalry mount by putting ,,her left foot into the strrup. 1 don't care bow you mount your war charger, if you only get into this battle for God and get there soon, right stirrup or left stlrrup or DO stirrup at all. The unoecuped fields are ell around us, and why should we build on another mans foun- datloni That God has called this church to especial work no one can doubt. Its history has been miraculous. God has helped us at every step, and though the wheels of It's his tory have made many revolutions, they have ell been forward and never backward. and now with our borders enlarged and with im- portant endorsements, we start on new campaign. At sharon Springs nineteen years ago. walking in the park, asked God If He had any particular work for me to do, to make 1t plain and would do 1t. He revealed to me the style of church we were to have, and He revealed to me the architecture, and He re- veale1 to me the modes of worship, and He revealed to me my work. and as far as in my ignorance and weakness have seen the right way. l have tried to walk in it. We decided that we wanted 1t a soul saving church, and 1t has been almost a constant outpouring of the Holy Ghost 1e powers of darkness, Ye devils in hell, we mean to snatch from your dominion other multltudes, if God will help us 1 have heard of what was called the "thundering le gion." It was in l79 a part of the Roman army to which some Christions belonged, and their prayers 1t was said, were answered by thunder and lightning and hail and tempest which oferthfeW an invading army and saved t1, Tod f f.. ltflI Hqf church may be so mighty in prayer and work that 1t would become laundering legion be- fore which the forces Of sin might be routed, and the gates of hell might trembe. Now that tile autumn has come, and the gospel ship has been repaired and enlarged, It Is time to launch her for another voyage. Heaye away now, ladsl Shake out the reefs fin the fore topsaili Come, O heavenly wind, and fill the caDyasi Jesus aboard will assure our safety. Jesus on the sea will beckon us forward. Jesus on the shining shore will welcome us into harbor. And so it came to pass that all escaped safe to land.'